Intel ARC Alchemist desktop graphics card will be postponed
The graphics card market will see many new products in 2022, except for Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 series and AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 series, Intel’s discrete graphics cards should be the most concerned. Intel Arc is Intel’s new high-performance gaming graphics card brand. The first generation product Alchemist graphics card (DG2) will be launched on the market. Both price and market positioning will have an impact on Nvidia and AMD, and it is likely to establish a three-legged situation.
At present, Intel has distributed the DG2 series GPUs to various board manufacturers and is currently undergoing debugging. According to a report by TomsHardware, Intel plans to launch the first Alchemist graphics cards on the desktop market. There will be two models, namely DG2-512EU and DG2-384EU. DG2-512EU has 4096 stream processors, is equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 video memory, the video memory bit width is 256 bits, and the core frequency is rumored to be between 2.2 GHz and 2.5 GHz, TDP is 225W, providing performance similar to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/RTX 3070 Ti. Intel DG2-384EU has 3072 stream processors and is equipped with 12GB of GDDR6 video memory. The memory bit width may be 192 bits. It will cut into the position of Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 to GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.
It is understood that Intel originally planned to release these two products in January 2022, but it is now likely to be postponed to March. In fact, there was news before that that Intel’s first batch of ARC brand discrete graphics cards is only for mobile platforms. The mobile version of Alder Lake will be launched in the first quarter of 2022, and the desktop version will only be launched in the second quarter of 2022. It is said that Intel’s postponement of the plan will help improve the driver and avoid direct competition with NVIDIA GPUs in January.
